{"id":444335,"date":"2023-07-27T10:47:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T14:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=444335"},"modified":"2023-07-27T10:47:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T14:47:29","slug":"david-silva-retires-from-football","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/david-silva-retires-from-football\/","title":{"rendered":"David Silva retires from football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Silva has announced his retirement from professional football at the age of 37.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 OFFICIAL: David Silva has retired from football at the age of 37! He suffered an ACL injury in pre-season and has decided to stop playing. \ud83d\ude14\ud83d\udc94 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JjMsHisGMH\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/JjMsHisGMH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeadlineDayLive\/status\/1684554522960560128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard enjoyed an elusive career Valencia, Manchester City and Real Sociedad, establishing himself as one of the deadliest attacking midfielders in his time.<\/p>\n<p>Silva enjoyed a tremendous success at City, during his 10-year spell from 2010 to 2020, when he won 4 Premier League titles, 2 FA Cups and 6 League Cups.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">David Silva&#39;s magical career has come to an end \ud83e\ude84 <\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the memories, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/21LVA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@21LVA<\/a> \u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XWDnkN07Vg\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XWDnkN07Vg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Premier League (@premierleague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierleague\/status\/1684556035262935040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Recently, the 37-year-old suffered a heavy knee injury, which contributed to his decision on retirement after 19 years of playing football.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today is a sad day for me,&#8221; Silva said on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today it is time to say goodbye to what I have dedicated my whole life to. Today it is time to say goodbye to my colleagues, who are like family to me. I will miss you very much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Silva enjoyed a trophy-laden spell with the Spain national team, winning 2 Euros in(2008,2012) and the World Cup in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Silva has announced his retirement from professional football at the age of 37. \ud83d\udea8 OFFICIAL: David Silva has retired from football at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":444336,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20544],"news_category":[137,14235],"gn_keywords":[1800],"acf":{"announce":"The Spaniard announces his retirement at the age of 37","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/444335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/444335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444335"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=444335"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=444335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}